The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 21

“Oh, how stupid of me not to think of that before!” said he, and he wished with all his might that the Bad One should become very hungry—so hungry that he could not wait a moment for fresh food to be brought to him.

Who acts: sight, Bad One · What happens: not think, say, wish, become, not wait, bring · To what, where: sight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, Bad One), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 stupid	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 stupid	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stupid	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stupid	advmod
5	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 stupid	obl
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 think	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 think	mark
10	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 stupid	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 think	obl
13	before	before	ADV	_	10 think	advmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 stupid	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 stupid	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wished	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wished	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wished	nsubj
21	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
22	with	with	SCONJ	_	25 might	mark
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 might	det:predet
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 might	nmod:poss
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 wished	advcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 become	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 One	det
28	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 One	amod
29	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 become	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 become	aux
31	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wished	advcl
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 hungry	advmod
33	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 become	xcomp
34	—	-	PUNCT	_	36 hungry	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 hungry	advmod
36	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	parataxis
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 wait	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 wait	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 wait	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 wait	advmod
41	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 hungry	advcl
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 moment	det
43	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wait	obj
44	for	for	ADP	_	46 food	case
45	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 food	amod
46	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 moment	nmod
47	to	to	PART	_	49 brought	mark
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 brought	aux:pass
49	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 food	acl
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 brought	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive				of that; before property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: express	past	sight				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	wish	past	sight				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	become	should	the Bad One			hungry property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	not wait	could	sight		moment		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bring	to-infinitive · passive	sight not said here	sight			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to he=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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